 Onawmanient, where all the woods were layd with ambuscado's to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible.  The Library of American Biography - Page 249by Jared Sparks - 1834Full view - About this book
 | John Smith - America - 1819 - 278 pages
...were layd with ambuscade's to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely" paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible. Many brauado's they made, but to appease their fury, our Captaine prepared with... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - Indians of North America - 1832
...were layd with ambuscadoes to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not haue showed more terrible. Many brauadoes they made, but to appease their furie, our captaine prepared... | |
 | Child rearing - 1832 - 336 pages
...were layd with ambuscadoes to the number of three or foure thousand Salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many 'spirits from hell could not haue showed more terrible. Many brauadoes they made, but to appease their furie, our captaine prepared... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1834 - 436 pages
...thousand Indians, lying in ambuscade, " so strangely painted, grimed, and disguised, shouting, yell, ing, and crying, as so many spirits from hell could not...be discharged, the grazing of the bullets upon the waterj and the report, which the woods multiplied into a thousand echoes, filled them with alarm. They... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - Indians of North America - 1835 - 362 pages
...layd with ambuscadoes to the number of three or four thousand Savages, so strangely paynted, grimmed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible." It is well known that the valiant Captain was wont to express his opinions in... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1837 - 338 pages
...that SEC. VII. buscado's to the number of three or foure thousand salvages, so 1608 strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible. Many bravado's they made, but to appease their fury, our captaine prepared with... | |
 | James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 788 pages
...layd with nmbuscadoes to the number of three or four thousand savages, so strangely paynted, grimmed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying, as so...spirits from hell could not have showed more terrible." It is well known that the valiant captain was wont to express his opinions in strong terms, but he... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Virginia - 1846 - 428 pages
...themselves surrounded by savages to the number of three or four thousand ; — " So strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying,...spirits from hell could not have showed more terrible." But Smith cared little for their bravados. Still, it was deemed necessary to scare them a little, and,... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 394 pages
...danger and labor, and to take the worst upon himself whenever there was any choice. Their reluctance1 to proceed any further was much increased by adverse...which the woods multiplied into a thousand echoes, rilled them with alarm. They threw down their arms, and made professions of peace, which was ratified... | |
 | Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians of North America - 1853 - 732 pages
...were layd with ambuscado's, to the number of three or foure thousand salvages, so strangely paynted, grimed and disguised, shouting, yelling and crying as so many spirits from hell could not have shewed more terrible. Many brauado's they made," but a discharge of bullets, over the surface of the... | |
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